Posts Tagged ‘SMS’

Text messages has, as many millions of frequent user know, earned is place as a high value tool despite its relatively low-tech nature in a world increasingly filled with smartphones and tablets. It works on nearly every phone regardless of how smart, or not, it is. It is so ubiquitess and useful that one company [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

A couple of spam text messages hit my iPhone recently. So, I tweeted a question to AT&T Wireless’s Customer Care Twitter account to learn what advice they might offer. You can see the response in the screenshot above. AT&T’s advice to use the word STOP to block messages is, it turns out, specifically to deal [...]

Pew Internet surveyed 2,277 adults in the U.S. to learn about their text message and voice call behavior. The results are probably not surprising to those who have been following mobile communications trends. But, the findings are still enlightening.

One of the biggest irratants in life to me (what a friend of mine would term a “first-world problem”: Things that bother you assuming the basics in life are already met) is text message spam (SMS spam). Tatango’s SMS Marketing Blog has a fascinating infographic summarizing the demographics of the problem.

If you receive text messages while sitting in front of a personal computer, you might find it more convenient to reply to those messages using your PC rather than typing a reply on your phone. DeskSMS is an Android app currently in beta that redirects text messages sent to your phone, to your Gmail or [...]

Juniper Research, in a recent report has projected that the number of mobile instant messaging (IM) users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016, marking a 300% increase from 2010. The growth is expected to be driven by the continued growth of services like AOL’s AIM, Blackberry Messenger, Microsoft’s Windows Live, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger and [...]

Pinger, the makers of the texting free and talking free apps, has launched its Textfree 1.2  for Android with Facebook Chat integration. Textfree by Pinger is the texting/instant messaging app for iOS and Android devices that provides the users their personal texting number with unlimited texting and IM for free. All you need is a [...]

In this second of two posts, guest blogger Carrie Scott continues her exploration of “message convergence” — what it is, what it can mean for consumers and marketers, and what companies can do to overcome message delivery challenges.

In this first of two posts, guest blogger Carrie Scott introduces us to “message convergence” — what it is, what it can mean for consumers and marketers, and what companies can do to overcome message delivery challenges.

Exams are a lip-biting, head-pounding experience for any student, but imagine you had to write an exam in the middle of a teacher strike with only half of the course material under your belt. Talk about stress. Students in South Africa were facing this situation when a think-tank, a social network and a large group [...]